talkertopc:1000 yards might be impolite but it is not exactly buzzing the tower.

Yeah, it's one thing to cross at 1000 yards... it's another to close at supersonic speeds while lighting them up with your fire control. That's when the headline reads: "Pair of Russian aircraft shot down by American Destroyer after aggressive actions."

The comments section of the TFA is priceless, you have to wonder when the readers of the uber-right Moonie Times began such a love affair with Russia, who used to be tier designated boogeyman:

Tastycake•Our country is a major hypocrite. We are just exploiting the Ukrainian people to get at Russia's vast natural resources combined with pushing our ideology onto them - sort of like what the USSR was doing prior to its dissolution. So we are now the USSA.2•

Kathy King•The Russians are also the only true Christian nation left on earth. Religious or not, I'd rather have leaders that profess to follow the "golden rule" than the dual citizen skanks we have in Canada and the US.

Cuchulain•They definitely are on the right side of the Syrian Sectarian War.

This is what you get when you send a single destroyer to an area that Russia views as their private playground. Its annoyance tactics, pure and simple. Its pretty simple: Russia is just showing it isn't intimidated by our token military presence.

And the next thing you know, everybody will start wearing neon short shorts paired with knee socks and start listening to Twisted Sister.The 80's were f*cking incredibly stupid, do we really have to go through all that sh*t again?

gas giant:And the next thing you know, everybody will start wearing neon short shorts paired with knee socks and start listening to Twisted Sister.The 80's were f*cking incredibly stupid, do we really have to go through all that sh*t again?

Apparently. From what i've seen, most hard core straight ticket voting republicans have a raging hardon when thinking about the possible return of the cold war.

gas giant:And the next thing you know, everybody will start wearing neon short shorts paired with knee socks and start listening to Twisted Sister.The 80's were f*cking incredibly stupid, do we really have to go through all that sh*t again?

gas giant:And the next thing you know, everybody will start wearing neon short shorts paired with knee socks and start listening to Twisted Sister.The 80's were f*cking incredibly stupid, do we really have to go through all that sh*t again?

WTF? Are you some kind of butthurt Belieber???

/Lived the 80s//Loved the 80s///Slasher films were a product of the 80s

dr_blasto:Ah, moonie times. Love your commenters, some of the most unhinged and mentally deficient people on the internets.

Also, of note, the actual event isn't noteworthy.

Oh, it's noteworthy, but it's not shocking or terrifying.

"Buzzing" a ship is dangerous, asinine, stupid, and would get a pilot punished if he did it to his own people. Doing it to a foreign vessel is like having a large gang of Guidos standing outside of a neighborhood grocery store loudly making racist jokes that target the races of the people entering the store. Not illegal, not directly threatening, yet clearly meant to threaten and intimidate.

Russia has been doing this occasionally for over a decade. Not constantly, but they've been doing it off and on since by or before the War on Terror. (I can't remember the first incident). This is another incident in the continuing list of ways Russia is rattling sabers and being belligerent. It should be filed and logged and used against Russia during diplomatic arguments.